It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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